envious - Story 45055 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The grimy atmosphere of the pawn shop felt oppressive to Marcus. He hated feeling the way he did, but he couldn't help himself. He found it. His grandmother's ring. The intricate gold detailing, the way the central amethyst caught the light…he knew it.

His sister, Jessica, had it. She’d inherited it after their grandmother’s passing. She wore it everywhere, showing it off to anyone who would look. Now, here it was. In a pawn shop.

“How much?” he asked, his voice strained. He hadn’t spoken to Jessica in weeks. There had been a falling out and he knew she would be devastated to know this.

The shop owner named a price that made Marcus’s stomach churn.

Emotion: envious

Cluster: Shame / Guilt

PC1 (Valence): -0.65 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.58

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion envious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 envious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the envious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the envious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.550
`H`	0.431
`B`	0.406
`L`	0.403
`envy`	0.365

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.262
`мед`	-0.258
`再次`	-0.246
`own`	-0.239
`พร้อม`	-0.231